- The radar card has disappeared from pixel weather
- All phone models appear to be affected
- Google has not yet said anything about the change
If you have fired the Weather app on your pixel phone in recent days and found the radar card strangely absent, you are not alone: It seems to have disappeared across all pixel phones for all users and no one is sure why.
As noted by Android Authority, this seems to be a change of server side, which means Google has apparently fine-tuned something about its ends has not been a update to the app that has taken the weather card away.
If you are not familiar with the Weather app on the pixel, the radar card will show precipitation over any area in the next few hours -it’s a lot like Dark Sky if you remember the popular iPhone Weather app that Apple bought in 2020 and later shut down.
The map view was part of a major renewal of the Weather app on Pixels, a renewal that first appeared on the Google Pixel 9 series before heading to older devices. There are a lot of other information in the app, but the card in real time is a big part of its appeal.
We’ve contacted Google to find out if it has an official response to the disappearance and will update this story if we hear back.
Where is it gone?
Google Weather App Radar is gone. Is there anyone else? from r/Googlepixel
You can find several complaints about the disappearance of the radar map onto Reddit and the official Pixel phone relief forums. It seems to have disappeared across each pixel phone, and it seems that many users were big fans of its functionality.
I have loaded the Weather app on my own pixel phone, and can confirm that the mapwidget is not found. Everything else seems to be working as usual, but there is no short panel on the interface – and no indication that it was ever there.
Google hasn’t said anything official about this, and until it does, we’re in the dark about what has gone here. Is there an error that Google is prescribing? Has it decided to remove the radar card for good? Was it drawn by mistake? Right now we just don’t know.
Unless this was a real error, it seems to be bad form of Google to remove such a popular feature in a core pixel app without any warning. Let’s hope Google comes back to us with some official comment in the near future – and the return of the card.
